Trust a proven platform for mission-critical applications

Focus on building applications and business logic, and let Azure solve the hard-distributed systems problems such as reliability, scalability, management and latency. Service Fabric is a source project and it powers core Azure infrastructure as well as other Microsoft services such as Skype for Business, Intune, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Factory, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Dynamics 365 and Cortana. Designed to deliver highly available and durable services at cloud-scale, Azure Service Fabric intrinsically understands the available infrastructure and resource needs of applications, enabling automatic scale, rolling upgrades and self-healing from faults when they occur.

Choose from a variety of productive programming models and languages including .NET Core 2.0, C# and Java to build your microservice and container-based applications. Deploy Service Fabric cluster in Azure or use Azure Service Fabric mesh – a fully managed microservices platform, currently in preview. Azure Service Fabric is also available as a free download for Windows Server, enabling you to create Service Fabric clusters on premises or in other clouds.

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Simplify building and managing microservice applications

Fast time to market: Focus on building features that add business value to your application, without the overhead of designing and writing additional code to deal with issues of reliability, scalability, management or latency in the underlying infrastructure.

Container and service orchestration in the same environment: Bring your Docker containers on Linux or Windows and run them reliably at scale alongside other workloads and services. Take advantage of Azure Service Fabric’s container hosting, cluster resource management and workload orchestration capabilities.

Choose your architecture: Build stateless or stateful microservices – an architectural approach where complex applications are composed of small, independently versioned services – to power the most complex, low-latency, data-intensive scenarios and scale them into or across the cloud with Azure Service Fabric. Mix and match the programming models and languages that work for you, from containers and guest-executables to microservices and actors.

Microservice agility:
Enable continuous integration and development practices, and accelerate delivery of new features by architecting fine-grained microservice applications.

IDE integration: Quickly and easily build, test, debug, deploy and upgrade Service Fabric applications in single-box, test and production environments. Do this using the IDE tool of your choice, such as Visual Studio, Eclipse or command-line support.

Run anywhere: Flexibly deploy the same application code on public, hosted or private clouds using consistent platform services and the same application programming models, with a choice of Windows Server or Linux (Ubuntu or RHEL) as the host operating system.